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David Dabydeen

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in Berbice, Guyana

January 01, 1956

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David Dabydeen (born 9 December 1955) is a Guyanese-born critic, writer, novelist and academic. Since 2010 he has been Guyana's ambassador to China.

Dabydeen is the author of novels, collections of poetry and works of non-fiction and criticism, as editor as well as writer. His first book, Slave Song (1984), a collection of poetry, won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and the Quiller-Couch Prize. A further collection, Turner: New and Selected Poems, was published in 1994, and reissued in 2002; the title-poem, Turner is an extended sequence or verse novel responding to a painting by J. M. W. Turner, "Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying – Typhoon coming on" (1840).

His first novel, The Intended (1991), the story of a young Asian student a ...more

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	Turner: New and Selected Poems 3.58 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Intended 3.54 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2000 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Disappearance 3.29 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Harlot's Progress 3.20 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Counting House liked it 3.00 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slave Song 4.03 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1984 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Mark Your Memory: writings from the descendants of indenture by David Dabydeen, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tina K. Ramnarine (Editor) 4.56 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Oxford Companion to Black British History by David Dabydeen (Editor), John Gilmore (Editor), Cecily Jones (Editor) 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Johnson's Dictionary really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coolie odyssey 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I stood before her asserting my age, but in truth not knowing where the years had gone or how they had led up to this moment.”
― David Dabydeen, The Intended

tags: adolscence, change, time-passing

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“Words are so full of cleverness', Joseph said, 'I wish I could learn how to read and write them. Every word is cat with nine separate lives, it come up to you for tickling and stroking and feeding, or it wander away and walk along neighbour's garden fence, or it crouch and concentrate when it see bird or it fall asleep under the bonnet of nearest parked car.”
― David Dabydeen, The Intended

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“He could not afford to be deemed lesse than a slave in mental capacity. The least tremor to that pillar of subordination on which slavery rested could see the edifice come crashing down. A centuty of pent-up rage would be unleashed, whitewomen raped, whitemen's heads hollowed out into drinking cups.”
― David Dabydeen, Johnson's Dictionary

tags: slavery

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